Armatage
Trillium Brewing Company
- From:
- Trillium Brewing Company
- Massachusetts, United States
- Style:
- Wild Ale
- ABV:
- 8.6%
- Score:
- 88
- Avg:
- 4 | pDev: 17%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 2
- Status:
- Retired
- Rated:
- Nov 01, 2021
- Added:
- Jul 08, 2020
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 1
SCORE
88
Very Good
88
Very Good
Released in Fall of 2018, Terroir Project: Rkatsiteli represented our New England agricultural heritage in a beautifully rustic way. We were so pleased with the results, that we asked our friends at Westport Rivers to join us for our first, true collaboration together. Sourcing more Rkatsiteli grape juice from the Westport, MA winery where JC and Esther were engaged, Armatage represents an evolution of that original Terroir Project offering, while advancing our exploration into the realm of beer/wine hybrids.
An American Wild Ale brewed with aged hops, conditioned in second-use wine puncheons, and refermented on Rkatsiteli juice, both sourced from Westport Rivers Winery, Armatage displays its effervescent, light straw appearance when decanted into a glass. The aroma is alluring, offering verdant notes of honeysuckle, lemongrass, pineapple, and mellow berry, with earthy undertones contributed by the aged hops addition. Its well-structured and balanced acid profile lies upon a crisp body and subtle back-of-palate bitterness.
MALT: American 2-row Barley, White Wheat
HOPS: CTZ, Aged Hops
ADDITIONAL INGREDIENTS: Westport Rivers Rkatsiteli Juice
An American Wild Ale brewed with aged hops, conditioned in second-use wine puncheons, and refermented on Rkatsiteli juice, both sourced from Westport Rivers Winery, Armatage displays its effervescent, light straw appearance when decanted into a glass. The aroma is alluring, offering verdant notes of honeysuckle, lemongrass, pineapple, and mellow berry, with earthy undertones contributed by the aged hops addition. Its well-structured and balanced acid profile lies upon a crisp body and subtle back-of-palate bitterness.
MALT: American 2-row Barley, White Wheat
HOPS: CTZ, Aged Hops
ADDITIONAL INGREDIENTS: Westport Rivers Rkatsiteli Juice
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Reviewed by GreesyFizeek from New York
1.98/5 rDev -50.5%
look: 3 | smell: 2.5 | taste: 1.75 | feel: 1.5 | overall: 1.75
1.98/5 rDev -50.5%
look: 3 | smell: 2.5 | taste: 1.75 | feel: 1.5 | overall: 1.75
This one pours a slightly hazy and slightly murky with a very small and instantly disappearing fizzy head, with no lacing.
This smells honestly awful, with old rotten grapes, vomit, butter, and intense acid and vinegar.
I don't know what happened here, but this is honestly awful. It tastes like cheap and spoiled wine, rotten grapes, and just so much acid. It's also a little bit buttery, and there's just an overlying feeling of vomit here. It kind of feels like there's an off flavor of butyric acid here.
It's not drinkable, really at all, and is just unpleasant to drink all around.
This is an absolute mess. I can't recommend it, at all.
Oct 30, 2020This smells honestly awful, with old rotten grapes, vomit, butter, and intense acid and vinegar.
I don't know what happened here, but this is honestly awful. It tastes like cheap and spoiled wine, rotten grapes, and just so much acid. It's also a little bit buttery, and there's just an overlying feeling of vomit here. It kind of feels like there's an off flavor of butyric acid here.
It's not drinkable, really at all, and is just unpleasant to drink all around.
This is an absolute mess. I can't recommend it, at all.
Reviewed by StoutElk_92 from Massachusetts
4.81/5 rDev +20.3%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4.75 | taste: 5 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.75
4.81/5 rDev +20.3%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4.75 | taste: 5 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.75
Pours a slightly cloudy straw yellow gold with lots of bubbles streaming to the top and a frothy white foam head that recedes to a minimal ring. Smells like slightly funky fruity white wine, rather juicy with voluptuous fruit notes of tropical pineapple, pear, apricot, vinous white grapes, honeysuckle, lemongrass, some rocky minerality, tart pithy lemony orange citrus, hints of barnyard funk, hay, straw, touch of malty grain, with dusty floral earthy hop notes. Tastes moderately intense and vinous, tart and tropical, with upfront zippy pineapple and starfruit flavors, gooseberry, lemony orange citrus, tart apricot, pear, white grapes, mildly acetic white wine, honeysuckle, lemongrass, slight minerality, hay, straw, oak, malty grains, hint of spice, with some dusty floral earthy herbal hop notes. Feels medium light bodied, creamy and smooth with crisp moderate carbonation. Overall a really nice wine/beer hybrid wild ale.
Aug 15, 2020
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